The Dick Morris Poll on Wisconsin
Published on
DickMorris.com on February 24, 2011
For Immediate Release:
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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF THE DICK MORRIS POLL and FIRST STATEWIDE
POLL RESULTS FROM OF WISCONSIN VOTERS
February 24, 2011
Dick Morris, a veteran pollster with thirty years of experience in
national and international polling, is announcing the launch of The Dick
Morris Poll, which will focus on timely political issues and candidates.
Drawing on his polling expertise, Dick will provide the results and an
analysis of each poll.
Dick Morris was President Clinton's pollster for 20 years, and has done
polling for 30 Senators and Governors and 14 presidents or prime
ministers in foreign countries.
The Dick Morris Poll, to be published at least once a month, will use
the traditional polling method of telephone calls to registered voters.
On occasion, internet polls will be done of a carefully drawn random
sample of likely voters - in order to avoid the bias of relying only on
those participants with a political predisposition.
The initial poll is the first published poll of voters conducted within
the state of Wisconsin and was completed on Monday, February 21, 201 and
Tuesday, February 22, 2011.
WISCONSIN POLL RESULTS
The Dick Morris Poll conducted a telephone survey among 409 likely
Wisconsin voters. The survey has a margin of error of +- 4%.
Findings: Wisconsin voters break almost evenly on Governor
Walker's proposed reforms, supporting them by a margin of 51-47.
They support many aspects of the proposal by significant numbers:
VOTERS SUPPORT CHANGING THE BENEFITS TO STATE WORKERS, PAY, AND
AUTOMATIC DEDUCTION OF UNION DUES
• By 74-18, they back making state employees pay more for their
health insurance.
• By 79-16, they support asking state workers contribute more
toward their pensions.
• By 54-34, Wisconsin voters support ending the automatic
deduction of union dues from state paychecks and support making unions
collect dues from each member.
• By 66-30, they back limiting state workers' pay increases to the
rate of inflation unless voters approve a higher raise by a public
referendum.
VOTERS OPPOSE CHANGING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS
On the issue of limiting collective bargaining to wage and benefit
issues, however, they break with the Governor, opposing the proposal by
41-54.
If the issues to be taken off the bargaining table are related to giving
schools flexibility to modify tenure, pay teachers based on merit,
discharge bad teachers and promote good ones, however, they
support such limits on collective bargaining by 58-38.
ANALYSIS: Voters back the principal of collective
bargaining. But they are also willing to limit these negotiations
so that they would not impede education reforms.
For Governor Walker to prevail, he must focus on his goal of achieving
reform in schools. He will not prevail as long as his proposal is
essentially negative in nature (i.e. limiting collective bargaining).
But if he emphasizes the positive intent that lies behind the proposal
(i.e. giving schools the flexibility and freedom to implement education
reforms), he will find a solid public majority behind him.
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